Week in Review 4-3-16
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Why We Must Always Remember How Much We Forget
The age-old debate when it comes to memory: Can you or can you not forget the past? When Hamlet …
Our American Privilege: Elitists and the Bernie Bro
Up Front: White, Privileged, and Feeling the Bern Up front: I’m a Sanders guy, or, in other parl…
The Enduring Legacy of Alexander Hamilton
It has come to my attention that there exists an award-winning Broadway musical based on the life of A…
Donald Trump Supporters Do Not Like Democracy
The people are angry. The people want a President who will build walls, call out women for menstrual c…
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Bryan Hurt: The Next Ambassador to France
In a literary culture full of “McPoems” and hand-wringing over the homogenization of literature because of a supposed surplus of MFA prog…
The Importance of Being Didactic
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Self-Portrait as a Soldier, 1915 In his essay, “The Novel,” D.H. Lawrence argued t…
The Fools of War
Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five opens with a quick plot sketch of the events to follow. There will…
Why Black Literature Matters
“The Thankful Poor”, Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1894 Last month in The Atlantic, Egyptian writer…
Why Don’t Afghans Love Us: Elliot Ackerman’s Green on Blue
There aren’t many “literary” fiction books out about Afghanistan, and almost n…